Category Archives: Internet

App-Only Internet Access Is Frustrating

Posted on October 2, 2011 by laura

While surfing this morning on my iPad, I followed a link to the New York Post and was surprised to see the following: Outside of paywall sites, this is the first time I’ve run across a website that I was … Continue reading →

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Twitter Is Down

Posted on September 15, 2011 by laura

Twitter seems to be down, as I discovered after spending about 20 minutes trying to upload a photo in various ways. After trying to login with several 3rd-party services, none of which were working, I checked the website, and it … Continue reading →

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Your Blog’s Traffic Stats May Be Wrong

Posted on August 8, 2011 by laura

Last month after having seen a few articles describing errors in traffic sources by analytics solutions that fail to correctly identify referring sites, I wrote about some informal tests I had been doing with my blog. Since then, I’ve had … Continue reading →

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Rebecca Black’s Moment

Posted on July 19, 2011 by laura

Yesterday Rebecca Black released her much awaited new music video “My Moment.” While the song isn’t as catchy as “Friday,” it’s an upbeat, feel-good tune that features authentic, smiling and talented teens dancing, singing and enjoying their time in the … Continue reading →

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Traffic From Twitter Grossly Underestimated By Referral Analysis

Posted on July 15, 2011 by laura

@mikecane on Twitter called my attention to this eye-opening explanation of social media referral traffic on the awe.sm Blog. I have been aware of this issue for some time, and Thomas Baekdal has previously written about it here. Both articles … Continue reading →

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Spending Time On Too Many Social Sites? Ur Doing It Wrong

Posted on July 10, 2011 by laura

Arjun Basu published some interesting observations on “The Social” where he wonders if the ever-growing number of social sites has finally reached the point where it’s gone seriously overboard, At what point does all of this become too much? I … Continue reading →

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Malicious Junk Mail

Posted on June 2, 2011 by laura

A few days ago, a colleague I hadn’t corresponded with in a while told me he almost missed my email because it wound up in the spam folder, and he hesitated before deleting it because my full name wasn’t displayed … Continue reading →

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